cultural

[kuhl-cher-uhl] / ˈkʌl tʃər əl /

ADJECTIVE

educational, enlightening

Synonyms

STRONGEST

artistic developmental

WEAK

adorning advancing beautifying beneficial broadening civilizing constructive corrective dignifying disciplining edifying educative elevating ennobling enriching expanding glorifying helpful humane humanizing influential inspirational instructive learned liberal liberalizing nurturing ornamenting polishing promoting raising refined refining regenerative socializing stimulating uplifting widening

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Detractors see something else: a public cultural landmark slowly being reshaped into a monument to one man’s taste.

From Salon

That combination of cultural reverence and unchecked authority, critics argue, can create environments where boundaries blur and where aspiring actors feel they have little leverage to push back.

From Salon

The second is that, traditionally religious identities like “evangelical Christian,” for example, have, for some, become cultural signifiers for some segment of the population.

From Salon

The government's indemnity scheme allows art and cultural objects to be shown publicly in the UK which "might not have been otherwise because the cost of insurance would have been too high".

From BBC

That shift reflects both economic pressures and cultural change.

From Barron's

cultural

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